Russian For Kids

Speaking and Vocabulary Topics

• Introductions and greetings;
• Personal information;
• The alphabet and pronunciation;
• Colours and shapes;
• Numbers;
• Age and birthdays;
• Days of the week;
• Months and seasons;
• Weather;
• School and school life;
• School supplies and school subjects;
• Toys;
• Professions;
• Family and family members;
• Friends and friendship;
• Food and drinks;
• Tableware and dishes;
• At the shop;
• Animals and birds;
• Parts of the body;
• Clothes;
• Describing a person’s appearance;
• The home and rooms;
• My room;
• The city and getting around the city;
• Transport;
• Nature;
• Holidays;
• Everyday life and activities;
• Hobbies and interests.

Grammar and Language Skills

Throughout the course, students are gradually introduced to the main grammatical structures of the Russian language and learn how to use them in practice.

The key grammatical areas include:

• Personal pronouns;
• Gender of nouns;
• Singular and plural forms of nouns;
• Basic verb forms and conjugation;
• Present tense;
• Past tense;
• Basic forms of the future tense;
• Adjectives and adjective–noun agreement;
• Possessive forms;
• Basic prepositions and their use;
• Structures expressing location;
• Basic interrogative sentences;
• Negative sentences;
• Simple sentence structure;
• Correct word order;
• Expressing time and dates;
• Simple structures for expressing quantity, location, and description.

Grammar is taught through communication and practical examples, enabling students not only to understand grammatical rules but also to use them effectively in speaking and writing.

By the End of the Course, Students Will Be Able To:

• Introduce themselves and provide basic personal information;
• Ask and answer simple questions about themselves, their family, school, interests, and everyday life;
• Participate in short dialogues on familiar topics;
• Use a wider range of vocabulary in everyday communication;
• Describe people, objects, places, and familiar surroundings using simple sentences;
• Talk about their family, home, school, hobbies, food, clothes, and everyday activities;
• Understand simple spoken Russian on familiar topics;
• Understand and follow simple instructions in Russian;
• Read and understand short and simple texts;
• Write simple words, phrases, and sentences;
• Use the grammatical structures they have learned in speaking and writing;
• Communicate in Russian in simple everyday and familiar situations;
• Develop their core listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills;
• Use Russian more confidently in real-life communication situations;
• Have a strong foundation for continuing their Russian language studies at the next level.

Speaking and Vocabulary Topics

• Introductions and greetings;
• Personal information;
• The alphabet and pronunciation;
• Colours and shapes;
• Numbers;
• Age and birthdays;
• Days of the week;
• Months and seasons;
• Weather;
• School and school life;
• School supplies and school subjects;
• Toys;
• Professions;
• Family and family members;
• Friends and friendship;
• Food and drinks;
• Tableware and dishes;
• At the shop;
• Animals and birds;
• Parts of the body;
• Clothes;
• Describing a person’s appearance;
• The home and rooms;
• My room;
• The city and getting around the city;
• Transport;
• Nature;
• Holidays;
• Everyday life and activities;
• Hobbies and interests.

Grammar and Language Skills

Throughout the course, students are gradually introduced to the main grammatical structures of the Russian language and learn how to use them in practice.

The key grammatical areas include:

• Personal pronouns;
• Gender of nouns;
• Singular and plural forms of nouns;
• Basic verb forms and conjugation;
• Present tense;
• Past tense;
• Basic forms of the future tense;
• Adjectives and adjective–noun agreement;
• Possessive forms;
• Basic prepositions and their use;
• Structures expressing location;
• Basic interrogative sentences;
• Negative sentences;
• Simple sentence structure;
• Correct word order;
• Expressing time and dates;
• Simple structures for expressing quantity, location, and description.

Grammar is taught through communication and practical examples, enabling students not only to understand grammatical rules but also to use them effectively in speaking and writing.

By the End of the Course, Students Will Be Able To:

• Introduce themselves and provide basic personal information;
• Ask and answer simple questions about themselves, their family, school, interests, and everyday life;
• Participate in short dialogues on familiar topics;
• Use a wider range of vocabulary in everyday communication;
• Describe people, objects, places, and familiar surroundings using simple sentences;
• Talk about their family, home, school, hobbies, food, clothes, and everyday activities;
• Understand simple spoken Russian on familiar topics;
• Understand and follow simple instructions in Russian;
• Read and understand short and simple texts;
• Write simple words, phrases, and sentences;
• Use the grammatical structures they have learned in speaking and writing;
• Communicate in Russian in simple everyday and familiar situations;
• Develop their core listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills;
• Use Russian more confidently in real-life communication situations;
• Have a strong foundation for continuing their Russian language studies at the next level.

Speaking and Vocabulary Topics

• Family and family relationships;
• Leisure time and free-time activities;
• Holidays and special occasions;
• Wishes and plans;
• Gifts and souvenirs;
• Shopping;
• At the cosmetics store;
• At the market;
• At the clothing store;
• Food and drinks;
• At the restaurant;
• Food products and grocery shopping;
• Travel and holidays;
• Vacations and travel plans;
• At the hotel;
• Directions and getting around the city;
• The home and apartment;
• Rooms, furniture, and decoration;
• Cleaning and household activities;
• Work and occupations;
• Professions;
• Telephone conversations;
• Emails and written communication;
• Free time;
• Hobbies and interests;
• Cities and landmarks;
• At the airport;
• Countries and culture;
• Health;
• Recommendations and advice;
• Emotions and feelings;
• Physical appearance;
• Clothes;
• Personality and character;
• Films and books.

Grammar and Language Skills

At A2 level, students continue developing their understanding of Russian grammar and learn to use a wider range of grammatical structures in both speaking and writing.

Key grammatical areas include:

• Personal, demonstrative, and possessive pronouns;
• The use of pronouns in different contexts;
• Case forms of nouns;
• The genitive case and its different uses;
• The dative case;
• The accusative case;
• Correct use of prepositions and cases;
• Singular and plural forms of nouns;
• Present, past, and future tenses;
• Verb conjugation;
• Reflexive verbs;
• Verb aspect — completed and ongoing actions;
• Full and short forms of adjectives;
• Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives;
• Adjective–noun agreement;
• Structures expressing location, time, and direction;
• Structures expressing wishes, necessity, possibility, and state;
• The imperative mood;
• Building simple compound sentences;
• Structures expressing cause and result;
• Structures expressing time and purpose.

Grammar is taught in context and through practical communication, enabling students not only to recognise new structures but also to use them independently in speaking and writing.

By the End of the Course, Students Will Be Able To:

• Talk about themselves, their family, interests, everyday life, and personal experiences;
• Describe people, including their appearance and personality, in greater detail;
• Express their wishes, emotions, opinions, and attitudes using simple language structures;
• Talk about future plans and intentions;
• Participate in longer dialogues and conversations on familiar topics;
• Handle everyday communication situations in shops, restaurants, hotels, airports, and while getting around a city;
• Read and understand short texts appropriate to their age and language level;
• Find specific information in a text and understand its main idea;
• Write short letters, messages, and emails;
• Describe events, experiences, and plans using simple, connected sentences;
• Use A2-level grammatical structures in speaking and writing;
• Understand the main information in spoken Russian on familiar topics;
• Ask follow-up questions and keep a conversation going;
• Give simple advice or recommendations;
• Compare people, objects, places, and situations;
• Express cause, purpose, and result using simple language structures;
• Use Russian more fluently and confidently in real-life communication situations;
• Have a strong language foundation for progressing to the B1 Russian Language Course.

Speaking and Vocabulary Topics

• Daily routines and schedules;
• Time and everyday activities;
• Expressions and common phrases;
• Healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle;
• Cooking and food preparation;
• Shopping;
• Friendship and friendly relationships;
• Relationships and communication;
• Hobbies and interests;
• Emotions and reactions;
• Education and learning;
• School and the learning environment;
• The amazing world and our planet;
• The animal world;
• Interesting facts about animals;
• Nature and the environment;
• Safety in nature and survival skills;
• Personality and personal qualities;
• Physical appearance and characteristics;
• Meeting people and social etiquette;
• Social gatherings and interactions;
• Family and society;
• The city and everyday life;
• Travel and new experiences;
• Countries and cultures;
• Free time and activities;
• Plans and the future;
• Health and visiting the doctor;
• Health advice and recommendations;
• Illness and recovery;
• Asking for and offering help;
• Written communication;
• Writing to a friend or family member.

Grammar and Language Skills

At B1 level, students continue to deepen their understanding of the Russian grammatical system and learn to use more complex language structures in both spoken and written communication.

Key grammatical areas include:

• Gender and number of nouns;
• Cases of nouns and their functions;
• Personal, possessive, and other pronouns;
• Adjectives and adjective–noun agreement;
• Basic verb forms and conjugation;
• Present, past, and future tenses;
• Verb aspect — completed and ongoing actions;
• Verbs expressing actions;
• Verbs of motion and their different uses;
• The use of verbs such as идти / ходить;
• Verbs used to describe travelling by transport;
• The use of verbs such as ехать / ездить;
• The accusative case for direct objects;
• The prepositional case for expressing location and topic;
• The genitive case and its main functions;
• Structures expressing quantity;
• Cardinal and ordinal numbers;
• The verbs начинать and заканчивать;
• Structures expressing desire, possibility, and necessity;
• The imperative mood and its use;
• Complex sentences expressing cause and result;
• Structures expressing purpose and time;
• Subordinate clauses using conjunctions such as который, потому что, поэтому, чтобы, and others;
• Structures used with verbs such as чувствовать себя and болеть;
• Commonly used verbs such as давать and получать;
• Pronominal constructions;
• Correct word order and logical connections within sentences.

Grammar is taught in context and through practical examples and communicative tasks. Students learn to use grammatical structures not only in individual sentences but also when producing connected speech and written texts.

By the End of the Course, Students Will Be Able To:

• Talk in greater detail about themselves, their family, school, friends, interests, and everyday life;
• Speak about familiar topics using several logically connected sentences;
• Describe events, people, places, and personal experiences;
• Retell past events in a clear and coherent sequence;
• Talk about future plans and wishes;
• Express their opinions, emotions, and attitudes;
• Support a simple opinion and explain reasons;
• Express cause, purpose, and result using appropriate language structures;
• Ask follow-up questions and maintain a conversation independently;
• Participate in longer dialogues and group discussions;
• Use Russian in a variety of everyday and social situations;
• Understand the main ideas of age- and level-appropriate audio and video materials;
• Read and understand different types of age-appropriate texts;
• Find specific information in a text and identify its main idea;
• Write connected texts on familiar topics;
• Write a letter, message, or short personal text;
• Use B1-level grammatical structures in both spoken and written communication;
• Correctly use key cases, tenses, verb aspects, and verbs of motion;
• Use Russian more fluently and confidently in real-life communication situations;
• Develop greater independence in listening, speaking, reading, and writing;
• Have a strong foundation for progressing to a B1+ / higher-intermediate Russian language course.

Speaking and Vocabulary Topics

1. Measurements and Quantities

• Time and the perception of time;
• Expressions and idioms related to time;
• Long-distance relationships and communication;
• Comparing distance and relationships;
• Comparing quality and quantity;
• Leadership and the qualities of a leader;
• Describing quantities and statistical information.

2. Cars and Mobility

• Cars and their functions;
• Driving experience;
• Different types of vehicles;
• Situations on the road;
• Road safety;
• Describing and explaining problematic situations;
• Automotive news and modern technologies.

3. Time, Eras, and Inventions

• Money and its history;
• The role of money in society;
• Household appliances;
• Modern gadgets and technologies;
• Understanding instructions for devices and appliances;
• Important inventions;
• The Nobel Prize;
• Famous scientists and inventors;
• Human achievements and discoveries.

4. Architecture and Design

• Architecture and design;
• Modern and traditional architecture;
• Interior design;
• Landscape design;
• Describing buildings and spaces;
• Professions related to design;
• Working with designers and other specialists;
• Expressing agreement and disagreement;
• Expressing dissatisfaction, evaluation, and attitudes.

5. Health and Sport

• The Olympic Games;
• The history of the Olympic movement;
• Sport and fair competition;
• Sporting achievements;
• Fitness and an active lifestyle;
• Giving advice about health and physical activity;
• Health-related situations;
• Describing symptoms and health conditions;
• Giving recommendations and advice.

6. The World Around Us

• Space and the exploration of the universe;
• Time, day and night;
• The seasons;
• Celestial bodies;
• Natural phenomena;
• Water and water resources;
• Nature and the environment;
• Growing and caring for plants;
• Environmental protection;
• Expressing criticism and different viewpoints.

7. Culture

• Literature and literary works;
• Poetry;
• Fairy tales and folk stories;
• Important works of Russian culture and literature;
• Traditions and hospitality;
• Inviting and accepting invitations;
• Folk art;
• Art and decorative arts;
• Traditional painting and artistic styles;
• Cultural similarities and differences.

8. Numbers, Mathematics, and Entrepreneurship

• Idioms related to numbers;
• Mathematical operations;
• Solving and explaining problems;
• Currency and currency exchange;
• The history of money and numbers;
• Entrepreneurship;
• Business and business development;
• Income;
• Expenses;
• Profit;
• Taxes and government fees.

9. Law and Justice

• Law and society;
• Justice and the legal system;
• Offences and crime;
• Fraud and personal safety;
• Discussing crime-related situations;
• Detective stories;
• Retelling events in a logical sequence;
• Evaluating facts and information;
• Citizens’ rights and responsibilities;
• General introduction to laws and regulations in different countries.

10. Society and History

• Society and its structure;
• General overview of political and social systems;
• Social events and developments;
• Historical events;
• Wars and significant historical periods;
• The formation and development of states;
• Important events in Russian history;
• The Romanov dynasty;
• State symbols of the Russian Federation;
• Historical sources and chronicles;
• Historical figures and their role in history.

Grammar and Language Skills

At B2 level, students systematically consolidate the grammatical knowledge acquired at previous levels and develop the ability to use more complex grammatical structures accurately and appropriately in context.

Key grammatical areas include:

• Prepositions and adverbs used to express time;
• Comparative and superlative forms;
• The “Чем…, тем…” construction;
• Subject–verb agreement when the subject expresses quantity;
• Active and passive participles in the present tense;
• Short forms of passive participles;
• Active and passive participles in the past tense;
• Adverbial participles — деепричастие — in the present and past tense;
• The use of nouns denoting professions and titles when referring to both men and women;
• Diminutive and augmentative forms with emotional connotations;
• Full and short forms of adjectives and passive participles;
• Different functions of the instrumental case (Творительный падеж);
• Prepositions expressing cause and consequence: в связи с, ввиду, в силу;
• Impersonal constructions, including Мне хочется…;
• Structures expressing cause: из-за, от, с, из;
• Different uses of the dative case (Дательный падеж);
• Negative pronouns and adverbs, including нечего, некогда, and others;
• Prefixed verbs and their differences in meaning;
• The genitive case expressing a small or partial quantity;
• Exceptions in the use of the genitive case;
• Declension of cardinal numbers;
• The use of cardinal numbers with сколько and много;
• Complex quantitative constructions;
• Expressing fractions in Russian;
• Formation of adjectives from numerals and pronouns;
• Declension of the pronouns свой, никакой, весь, чей;
• The imperfective aspect (несовершенный вид) and its uses;
• The difference between такой же / тот же самый / один и тот же and their appropriate use;
• Declension of names and surnames;
• Possessive adjectives (притяжательные прилагательные);
• Building complex sentences and establishing logical connections between their parts.

Grammar is taught in context and through practical examples and communicative tasks. Particular attention is given to understanding the differences between similar grammatical forms and using them accurately in both spoken and written communication.

By the End of the Course, Students Will Be Able To:

• Speak fluently and coherently on a wide range of familiar and educational/social topics;
• Express their opinions, attitudes, and emotions using more precise and varied language;
• Present and support their own position with relevant arguments;
• Compare different ideas, events, people, or situations;
• Explain causes, consequences, purposes, and relationships between ideas;
• Describe and analyse events and experiences;
• Retell stories or events using a clear and logical structure;
• Participate actively in extended dialogues, discussions, and group conversations;
• Ask follow-up questions, respond to different viewpoints, and maintain conversations independently;
• Use a broad and thematically diverse vocabulary;
• Understand the main ideas and important details of more complex audio and video materials;
• Read and understand different types of age- and level-appropriate texts;
• Identify the main idea, distinguish important information, and draw relevant conclusions from a text;
• Produce structured and coherent written texts on a variety of topics;
• Write letters, messages, descriptive, argumentative, and informative texts;
• Use B2-level grammatical structures accurately in both spoken and written communication;
• Correctly use complex case, verb, and syntactic structures;
• Distinguish between grammatically similar forms and use them appropriately in context;
• Use Russian more fluently, accurately, and naturally;
• Communicate confidently in everyday, educational, and social situations;
• Develop independent and functional listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills;
• Have a strong linguistic foundation for progressing to a C1 Russian Language Course.

•  Role-playing exercises, interviews, videos, and fun games will be used for all levels.